http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/12/11/my-expectation-of-privacy/ because technology is just another ecosystem Sun, 13 May 2012 00:23:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/12/11/my-expectation-of-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-580037 Glen Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:10:50 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/?p=3261#comment-580037 Stephen - count me as on of the skeptics. First, you spent about 5 times as many column inches as necessary saying the same thing over and over and over again, "privacy can be abused but I'm not too worried". Second, I do not believe any one erosion of privacy on the internet is the real issue. It's the proverbial "frog in a pot of water" - turn up the heat slow enough and he doesn't realize he's being cooked. I don't think Google has any intention of selling their data. They want to profit from it for sure but not by selling it. It's the analitics of that data that they could sell. Further, there will (as opposed to could) be a time when government will demand access, not just to the data but the analytics. So, do I trust Google and others? "No". But I don't see an alternative short of becoming a hermit in the deep woods of Maine (or Wyoming). Stephen – count me as on of the skeptics. First, you spent about 5 times as many column inches as necessary saying the same thing over and over and over again, “privacy can be abused but I’m not too worried”. Second, I do not believe any one erosion of privacy on the internet is the real issue. It’s the proverbial “frog in a pot of water” – turn up the heat slow enough and he doesn’t realize he’s being cooked. I don’t think Google has any intention of selling their data. They want to profit from it for sure but not by selling it. It’s the analitics of that data that they could sell. Further, there will (as opposed to could) be a time when government will demand access, not just to the data but the analytics. So, do I trust Google and others? “No”. But I don’t see an alternative short of becoming a hermit in the deep woods of Maine (or Wyoming).

]]> http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/12/11/my-expectation-of-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-579817 James Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:09:10 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/?p=3261#comment-579817 What about your Google Talk chats? Surely they're private? Nope, Google thinks they're fair game too: http://twitter.com/erikarn/status/6566117450 "notices that mentioning an test-only URL in a gtalk session == crawled instantly by googlebot. God damnit guys.." What about your Google Talk chats? Surely they’re private? Nope, Google thinks they’re fair game too: http://twitter.com/erikarn/status/6566117450 “notices that mentioning an test-only URL in a gtalk session == crawled instantly by googlebot. God damnit guys..”

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